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PREFACE
For several years, we have been hearing how there was a need for multicrafted main-
tenance technicians in the industry. Instead of an electrician or mechanic or welder,
there was a need for a multicraft technician who could perform these duties and more.
To answer this need, we developed an Industrial Electricity program, an Industrial
Mechanics program, and a Welding program. We taught our students the traditional
way. We presented them with hand tools, piping systems, safety, print reading, fluid
power, power transmission, electrical fundamentals, motor controls, electronics, PLCs,
drives, gas welding, arc welding, and more. Each of these subjects was taught as an
individual course. Each of these courses required separate texts.
Then one day, an idea formed. What if we could combine these programs into one?
We then created an Associate Degree in Industrial Maintenance. The student could
now combine courses from all three programs and leave with a multicraft degree. How-
ever, this created a challenge. We did not want to continue using separate texts for this
program, and the economic burden on our students became great. So, we decided to
produce a text that would satisfy the requirements for a vast majority of the courses
taught. Industrial Maintenance was created to meet this need. For our program, Indus-
trial Maintenance replaces approximately 20 texts that were previously required to
complete the courses in the areas of Industrial Electricity, Industrial Mechanics, and
Welding.
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Industrial Maintenance, 2E, serves as a vital resource for all individuals involved in the
maintenance field. This text will best serve those individuals enrolled in high school
vocational/trade programs, two-year technical college/community college programs,
adult education programs, and corporate training/certification programs. However,
Industrial Maintenance should also prove to be a valuable resource for those individu-
als already employed in the maintenance field—where any maintenance technician
can keep a copy of the book in his tool box, locker, or other handy location.
Industrial Maintenance, 2E, addresses the needs of the multicrafted maintenance
technician and presents an all-encompassing view of the field of industrial mainte-
nance, which covers a variety of technical skill areas. These include, but are not limited
to, mechanics (mechanical installation, fluid power, piping systems, power transmis-
sion, print reading, and safety, to name a few), electrical (electrical theory, test equip-
ment, electronics, the National Electrical Code , control circuits, rotating machines, ®
PLCs, and drives, for example), and welding (gas welding and arc welding). A mul-
ticrafted maintenance technician must have knowledge and skills in all these areas.
Industrial Maintenance, 2E, addresses these areas in a format designed with the techni-
cian in mind.
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Chapter 2
■ All photos are now in color or have been reshot in color.
Chapter 3
■ All photos are now in color or have been reshot in color.
Chapter 4
■ A restructuring of Chapter 4 has occurred to include piping, hydraulics, and pneumatics.
• 4-1 Mechanical Drawings
• 4-2 Piping Symbols and Drawing
• 4-3 Hydraulic/Pneumatic Symbols and Drawings
• 4-4 Electrical Symbols and Drawings
• 4-5 Welding Symbols and Drawings
■ Some graphics have been changed and others are new.
■ There is new content concerning hydraulic and pneumatic symbols and drawings.
Chapter 5
■ New chapter concerning rigging and rigging equipment has been added.
■ Chapter 5 includes:
• 5-1 Formulae and Weight Estimations
• 5-2 Load Balancing
• 5-3 Synthetic Slings
• 5-4 Fiber Rope and Securing
• 5-5 Wire Rope and Wire Rope Slings
• 5-6 Chain and Chain Slings
• 5-7 Prelift Planning
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Chapter 6
■ All photos are now in color.
■ Some graphics have been redone in color to make the content that is stressed more easily
recognizable.
■ Additional information concerning belt and pulley wear guides has been added.
Chapter 7
■ All photos are now in color.
Chapter 8
■ All photos are now in color.
■ Some graphics have been redone in color to make the content that is stressed more easily
recognizable.
■ Content concerning bar sag has been added.
■ The dial caliper graphic has been revised to include more detail on how to read it.
■ New photo showing a laser alignment kit in use has been included.
Chapter 9
■ There is added content and graphics concerning automatic oilers.
Chapter 10
■ All photos are now in color.
■ Some graphics have been redone in color to make the content that is stressed more easily
recognizable.
Chapter 11
■ All photos are now in color.
Chapter 12
■ There is a new photo showing a bladder-type accumulator.
Chapter 13
■ All photos are now in color.
Chapter 14
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
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Chapter 15
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 16
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 17
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 18
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 19
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 20
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 21
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 22
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 23
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
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Chapter 24
■ Added color.
Chapter 25
■ Added color.
Chapter 26
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
Chapter 27
■ Added color photos to supplement content.
Chapter 28
■ Color photos have been added to supplement new content or to support existing content.
Chapter 31
■ Added color.
■ Fixed errors.
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TEXT LAYOUT
In order for the student to be able to navigate with ease through the various technical
skills required to train multiskilled technicians, Industrial Maintenance is divided into five
sections.
Note: Need help organizing an Industrial Maintenance course? Please see our course syllabus,
appearing after the Preface on page xvii and also available in electronic format on the Instructor
Companion Web site that accompanies the text.
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Preface xix
A TYPICAL DAY
IN MAINTENA
NC E discover the situation at hand.
Check It Out
has begun. You
have had your
breakfast and
a work order
coffee,
for the
SECTI
The explanation of the scenario
MECH
2
and your shift rvisor hands you
It is 7:00 A.M, was making a
loud
pay. Your supe ON
and it is time
to earn your rts that the press will
A is then followed up by a series of
KNOW NICAL
ator repo the press
. The press oper a “funny” odor
, and now
number 3 press smel led
the operator
vibration, then
You gather the
not run.
You mentally
run through sever
al possible cause
ctive equipment
s of the problem.
(PPE), hand tools
, and test
It is now 7:20
equip
A.M.
LEDGE
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questions, where readers must
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number 3.Me
relevant print chanica
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have be operator ion on the
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required
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INDUSTRIAL MAINTENANCE SYLLABUS
Industrial Maintenance, 2E, was written to assist in the education and training of the
multicrafted maintenance technician. As a result, the text is very broad in scope. When
developing a course or courses to teach industrial maintenance, the textbook, work-
book, PowerPoint, and test bank can be invaluable. This document serves as a guide to
using Industrial Maintenance, 2E, and the ancillary materials.
Note: Would you like to add your own notes to the syllabus printed here? Please
see the Instructor Resource Web site that accompanies this textbook for the electronic
version.
COMPETENCIES
Industrial maintenance technicians must be multiskilled (or multicrafted) in order to
perform their required job duties. As a result, these individuals must possess knowledge
in three key areas: mechanical, electrical, and welding. To facilitate learning in these
areas, Industrial Maintenance, 2E, is divided into five sections: General Knowledge,
Mechanical Knowledge, Electrical Knowledge, Welding Knowledge, and Preventive
Maintenance. Mastery of the required competencies in these areas is demonstrated by
the completion of assignments in the accompanying workbook and by passing related
tests created from the accompanying test bank.
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THE UNPRINCIPLED AFFAIR OF THE
PRACTICAL JOKER
The Zambesi, they said, was expected to dock at six in the morning.
Mrs. Ruyslaender booked a bedroom at the Magnifical, with despair
in her heart. A bare nine hours and she would be greeting her
husband. After that would begin the sickening period of waiting—it
might be days, it might be weeks, possibly even months—for the
inevitable discovery.
The reception-clerk twirled the register towards her. Mechanically, as
she signed it, she glanced at the preceding entry:
"Lord Peter Wimsey and valet—London—Suite 24."
Mrs. Ruyslaender's heart seemed to stop for a second. Was it
possible that, even now, God had left a loophole? She expected little
from Him—all her life He had shown Himself a sufficiently stern
creditor. It was fantastic to base the frailest hope on this signature of
a man she had never even seen.
Yet the name remained in her mind while she dined in her own room.
She dismissed her maid presently, and sat for a long time looking at
her own haggard reflection in the mirror. Twice she rose and went to
the door—then turned back, calling herself a fool. The third time she
turned the handle quickly and hurried down the corridor, without
giving herself time to think.
A large golden arrow at the corner directed her to Suite 24. It was 11
o'clock, and nobody was within view. Mrs. Ruyslaender gave a sharp
knock on Lord Peter Wimsey's door and stood back, waiting, with the
sort of desperate relief one experiences after hearing a dangerous
letter thump the bottom of the pillar-box. Whatever the adventure,
she was committed to it.
The manservant was of the imperturbable sort. He neither invited nor
rejected, but stood respectfully upon the threshold.
"Lord Peter Wimsey?" murmured Mrs. Ruyslaender.
"Yes, madam."
"Could I speak to him for a moment?"
"His Lordship has just retired, madam. If you will step in, I will
enquire."
Mrs. Ruyslaender followed him into one of those palatial sitting-
rooms which the Magnifical provides for the wealthy pilgrim.
"Will you take a seat, madam?"
The man stepped noiselessly to the bedroom door and passed in,
shutting it behind him. The lock, however, failed to catch, and Mrs.
Ruyslaender caught the conversation.
"Pardon me, my lord, a lady has called. She mentioned no
appointment, so I considered it better to acquaint your lordship."
"Excellent discretion," said a voice. It had a slow, sarcastic
intonation, which brought a painful flush to Mrs. Ruyslaender's
cheek. "I never make appointments. Do I know the lady?"
"No, my lord. But—hem—I know her by sight, my lord. It is Mrs.
Ruyslaender."
"Oh, the diamond-merchant's wife. Well, find out tactfully what it's all
about, and, unless it's urgent, ask her to call to-morrow."
The valet's next remark was inaudible, but the reply was:
"Don't be coarse, Bunter."
The valet returned.
"His lordship desires me to ask you, madam, in what way he can be
of service to you?"
"Will you say to him that I have heard of him in connection with the
Attenbury diamond case, and am anxious to ask his advice."
"Certainly, madam. May I suggest that, as his lordship is greatly
fatigued, he would be better able to assist you after he has slept."
"If to-morrow would have done, I would not have thought of
disturbing him to-night. Tell him, I am aware of the trouble I am giving
——"
"Excuse me one moment, madam."
This time the door shut properly. After a short interval Bunter
returned to say, "His lordship will be with you immediately, madam,"
and to place a decanter of wine and a box of Sobranies beside her.
Mrs. Ruyslaender lit a cigarette, but had barely sampled its flavour
when she was aware of a soft step beside her. Looking round, she
perceived a young man, attired in a mauve dressing-gown of great
splendour, from beneath the hem of which peeped coyly a pair of
primrose silk pyjamas.
"You must think it very strange of me, thrusting myself on you at this
hour," she said, with a nervous laugh.
Lord Peter put his head on one side.
"Don't know the answer to that," he said. "If I say, 'Not at all,' it
sounds abandoned. If I say, 'Yes, very,' it's rude. Supposin' we give it
a miss, what? and you tell me what I can do for you."
Mrs. Ruyslaender hesitated. Lord Peter was not what she had
expected. She noted the sleek, straw-coloured hair, brushed flat
back from a rather sloping forehead, the ugly, lean, arched nose, and
the faintly foolish smile, and her heart sank within her.
"I—I'm afraid it's ridiculous of me to suppose you can help me," she
began.
"Always my unfortunate appearance," moaned Lord Peter, with such
alarming acumen as to double her discomfort. "Would it invite
confidence more, d'you suppose, if I dyed my hair black an' grew a
Newgate fringe? It's very tryin', you can't think, always to look as if
one's name was Algy."
"I only meant," said Mrs. Ruyslaender, "that I don't think anybody
could possibly help. But I saw your name in the hotel book, and it
seemed just a chance."
Lord Peter filled the glasses and sat down.
"Carry on," he said cheerfully; "it sounds interestin'."
Mrs. Ruyslaender took the plunge.
"My husband," she explained, "is Henry Ruyslaender, the diamond
merchant. We came over from Kimberley ten years ago, and settled
in England. He spends several months in Africa every year on
business, and I am expecting him back on the Zambesi to-morrow
morning. Now, this is the trouble. Last year he gave me a
magnificent diamond necklace of a hundred and fifteen stones——"
"The Light of Africa—I know," said Wimsey.
She looked a little surprised, but assented. "The necklace has been
stolen from me, and I can't hope to conceal the loss from him. No
duplicate would deceive him for an instant."
She paused, and Lord Peter prompted gently:
"You have come to me, I presume, because it is not to be a police
matter. Will you tell me quite frankly why?"
"The police would be useless. I know who took it."
"Yes?"
"There is a man we both know slightly—a man called Paul Melville."
Lord Peter's eyes narrowed. "M'm, yes, I fancy I've seen him about
the clubs. New Army, but transferred himself into the Regulars. Dark.
Showy. Bit of an ampelopsis, what?"
"Ampelopsis?"
"Surburban plant that climbs by suction. You know—first year, tender
little shoots—second year, fine show—next year, all over the shop.
Now tell me I am rude."
Mrs. Ruyslaender giggled. "Now you mention it, he is exactly like an
ampelopsis. What a relief to be able to think of him as that.... Well,
he is some sort of distant relation of my husband's. He called one
evening when I was alone. We talked about jewels, and I brought
down my jewel-box and showed him the Light of Africa. He knows a
good deal about stones. I was in and out of the room two or three
times, but didn't think to lock up the box. After he left, I was putting
the things away, and I opened the jeweller's case the diamonds were
in—and they had gone!"
"H'm—pretty bare-faced. Look here, Mrs. Ruyslaender, you agree
he's an ampelopsis, but you won't call in the police. Honestly, now—
forgive me; you're askin' my advice, you know—is he worth botherin'
about?"
"It's not that," said the woman, in a low tone. "Oh, no! But he took
something else as well. He took—a portrait—a small painting set
with diamonds."
"Oh!"
"Yes. It was in a secret drawer in the jewel-box. I can't imagine how
he knew it was there, but the box was an old casket, belonging to my
husband's family, and I fancy he must have known about the drawer
and—well, thought that investigation might prove profitable. Anyway,
the evening the diamonds went the portrait went too, and he knows I
daren't try to get the necklace back because they'd both be found
together."
"Was there something more than just the portrait, then? A portrait in
itself isn't necessarily hopeless of explanation. It was given you to
take care of, say."
"The names were on it—and—and an inscription which nothing,
nothing could ever explain away. A—a passage from Petronius."
"Oh, dear!" said Lord Peter, "dear me, yes. Rather a lively author."
"I was married very young," said Mrs. Ruyslaender, "and my
husband and I have never got on well. Then one year, when he was
in Africa, it all happened. We were wonderful—and shameless. It
came to an end. I was bitter. I wish I had not been. He left me, you
see, and I couldn't forgive it. I prayed day and night for revenge.
Only now—I don't want it to be through me!"
"Wait a moment," said Wimsey, "you mean that, if the diamonds are
found and the portrait is found too, all this story is bound to come
out."
"My husband would get a divorce. He would never forgive me—or
him. It is not so much that I mind paying the price myself, but——"
She clenched her hands.
"I have cursed him again and again, and the clever girl who married
him. She played her cards so well. This would ruin them both."
"But if you were the instrument of vengeance," said Wimsey gently,
"you would hate yourself. And it would be terrible to you because he
would hate you. A woman like you couldn't stoop to get your own
back. I see that. If God makes a thunderbolt, how awful and
satisfying—if you help to make a beastly row, what a rotten business
it would be."
"You seem to understand," said Mrs. Ruyslaender. "How unusual."
"I understand perfectly. Though let me tell you," said Wimsey, with a
wry little twist of the lips, "that it's sheer foolishness for a woman to
have a sense of honour in such matters. It only gives her
excruciating pain, and nobody expects it, anyway. Look here, don't
let's get all worked up. You certainly shan't have your vengeance
thrust upon you by an ampelopsis. Why should you? Nasty fellow.
We'll have him up—root, branch, and little suckers. Don't worry. Let's
see. My business here will only take a day. Then I've got to get to
know Melville—say a week. Then I've got to get the doings—say
another week, provided he hasn't sold them yet, which isn't likely.
Can you hold your husband off 'em for a fortnight, d'you think?"
"Oh, yes. I'll say they're in the country, or being cleaned, or
something. But do you really think you can——?"
"I'll have a jolly good try, anyhow, Mrs. Ruyslaender. Is the fellow
hard up, to start stealing diamonds?"
"I fancy he has got into debt over horses lately. And possibly poker."
"Oh! Poker player, is he? That makes an excellent excuse for gettin'
to know him. Well, cheer up—we'll get the goods, even if we have to
buy 'em. But we won't, if we can help it. Bunter!"
"My lord?" The valet appeared from the inner room.
"Just go an' give the 'All Clear,' will you?"
Mr. Bunter accordingly stepped into the passage, and, having seen
an old gentleman safely away to the bathroom and a young lady in a
pink kimono pop her head out of an adjacent door and hurriedly pop
it back on beholding him, blew his nose with a loud, trumpeting
sound.
"Good night," said Mrs. Ruyslaender, "and thank you."
She slipped back to her room unobserved.
"I say, Biggs," said Wimsey, when he had returned to the card-room.
"You've had a lot of experience. What tactics d'you think one's
justified in usin' with a blackmailer?"
"Ah!" said the K.C. "There you've put your finger on Society's sore
place, where the Law is helpless. Speaking as a man, I'd say nothing
could be too bad for the brute. It's a crime crueller and infinitely
worse in its results than murder. As a lawyer, I can only say that I
have consistently refused to defend a blackmailer or to prosecute
any poor devil who does away with his tormentor."
"H'm," replied Wimsey. "What do you say, Colonel?"
"A man like that's a filthy pest," said the little warrior stoutly.
"Shootin's too good for him. I knew a man—close personal friend, in
fact—hounded to death—blew his brains out—one of the best. Don't
like to talk about it."
"I want to show you something," said Wimsey.
He picked up the pack which still lay scattered on the table, and
shuffled it together.
"Catch hold of these, Colonel, and lay 'em out face downwards.
That's right. First of all you cut 'em at the twentieth card—you'll see
the seven of diamonds at the bottom. Correct? Now I'll call 'em. Ten
of hearts, ace of spades, three of clubs, five of clubs, king of
diamonds, nine, jack, two of hearts. Right? I could pick 'em all out,
you see, except the ace of hearts, and that's here."
He leaned forward and produced it dexterously from Sir Impey's
breast-pocket.
"I learnt it from a man who shared my dug-out near Ypres," he said.
"You needn't mention to-night's business, you two. There are crimes
which the Law cannot reach."
THE UNDIGNIFIED MELODRAMA OF
THE BONE OF CONTENTION
"I am afraid you have brought shocking weather with you, Lord
Peter," said Mrs. Frobisher-Pym, with playful reproof. "If it goes on
like this they will have a bad day for the funeral."
Lord Peter Wimsey glanced out of the morning-room window to the
soaked green lawn and the shrubbery, where the rain streamed down
remorselessly over the laurel leaves, stiff and shiny like
mackintoshes.
"Nasty exposed business, standing round at funerals," he agreed.
"Yes, I always think it's such a shame for the old people. In a tiny
village like this it's about the only pleasure they get during the winter.
It makes something for them to talk about for weeks."
"Is it anybody's funeral in particular?"
"My dear Wimsey," said his host, "it is plain that you, coming from
your little village of London, are quite out of the swim. There has
never been a funeral like it in Little Doddering before. It's an event."
"Really?"
"Oh dear, yes. You may possibly remember old Burdock?"
"Burdock? Let me see. Isn't he a sort of local squire, or something?"
"He was," corrected Mr. Frobisher-Pym. "He's dead—died in New
York about three weeks ago, and they're sending him over to be
buried. The Burdocks have lived in the big house for hundreds of
years, and they're all buried in the churchyard, except, of course, the
one who was killed in the War. Burdock's secretary cabled the news
of his death across, and said the body was following as soon as the
embalmers had finished with it. The boat gets in to Southampton this
morning, I believe. At any rate, the body will arrive here by the 6.30
from Town."
"Are you going down to meet it, Tom?"
"No, my dear. I don't think that is called for. There will be a grand turn-
out of the village, of course. Joliffe's people are having the time of
their lives; they borrowed an extra pair of horses from young Mortimer
for the occasion. I only hope they don't kick over the traces and upset
the hearse. Mortimer's horseflesh is generally on the spirited side."
"But, Tom, we must show some respect to the Burdocks."
"We're attending the funeral to-morrow, and that's quite enough. We
must do that, I suppose, out of consideration for the family, though, as
far as the old man himself goes, respect is the very last thing
anybody would think of paying him."
"Oh, Tom, he's dead."
"And quite time too. No, Agatha, it's no use pretending that old
Burdock was anything but a spiteful, bad-tempered, dirty-living old
blackguard that the world's well rid of. The last scandal he stirred up
made the place too hot to hold him. He had to leave the country and
go to the States, and, even so, if he hadn't had the money to pay the
people off, he'd probably have been put in gaol. That's why I'm so
annoyed with Hancock. I don't mind his calling himself a priest,
though clergyman was always good enough for dear old Weeks—
who, after all, was a canon—and I don't mind his vestments. He can
wrap himself up in a Union Jack if he likes—it doesn't worry me. But
when it comes to having old Burdock put on trestles in the south
aisle, with candles round him, and Hubbard from the 'Red Cow' and
Duggins's boy praying over him half the night, I think it's time to draw
the line. The people don't like it, you know—as least, the older
generation don't. It's all right for the young ones, I dare say; they must
have their amusement; but it gives offence to a lot of the farmers.
After all, they knew Burdock a bit too well. Simpson—he's people's
warden, you know—came up quite in distress to speak to me about it
last night. You couldn't have a sounder man than Simpson. I said I
would speak to Hancock. I did speak to him this morning, as a matter
of fact, but you might as well talk to the west door of the church."
"Mr. Hancock is one of those young men who fancy they know
everything," said his wife. "A sensible man would have listened to
you, Tom. You're a magistrate and have lived here all your life, and it
stands to reason you know considerably more about the parish than
he does."
"He took up the ridiculous position," said Mr. Frobisher-Pym, "that the
more sinful the old man had been the more he needed praying for. I
said, 'I think it would need more praying than you or I could do to help
old Burdock out of the place he's in now.' Ha, ha! So he said, 'I agree
with you, Mr. Frobisher-Pym; that is why I am having eight watchers
to pray all through the night for him.' I admit he had me there."
"Eight people?" exclaimed Mrs. Frobisher-Pym.
"Not all at once, I understand; in relays, two at a time. 'Well,' I said, 'I
think you ought to consider that you will be giving a handle to the
Nonconformists.' Of course, he couldn't deny that."
Wimsey helped himself to marmalade. Nonconformists, it seemed,
were always searching for handles. Though what kind—whether
door-handles, tea-pot handles, pump-handles, or starting-handles—
was never explained, nor what the handles were to be used for when
found. However, having been brought up in the odour of the
Establishment, he was familiar with this odd dissenting peculiarity,
and merely said:
"Pity to be extreme in a small parish like this. Disturbs the ideas of the
simple fathers of the hamlet and the village blacksmith, with his
daughter singin' in the choir and the Old Hundredth and all the rest of
it. Don't Burdock's family have anything to say to it? There are some
sons, aren't there?"
"Only the two, now. Aldine was the one that was killed, of course, and
Martin is somewhere abroad. He went off after that row with his
father, and I don't think he has been back in England since."
"What was the row about?"
"Oh, that was a disgraceful business. Martin got a girl into trouble—a
film actress or a typist or somebody of that sort—and insisted on
marrying her."
"Oh?"
"Yes, so dreadful of him," said the lady, taking up the tale, "when he
was practically engaged to the Delaprime girl—the one with glasses,
you know. It made a terrible scandal. Some horribly vulgar people
came down and pushed their way into the house and insisted on
seeing old Mr. Burdock. I will say for him he stood up to them—he
wasn't the sort of person you could intimidate. He told them the girl
had only herself to blame, and they could sue Martin if they liked—he
wouldn't be blackmailed on his son's account. The butler was
listening at the door, naturally, and told the whole village about it. And
then Martin Burdock came home and had a quarrel with his father
you could have heard for miles. He said that the whole thing was a
lie, and that he meant to marry the girl, anyway. I cannot understand
how anybody could marry into a blackmailing family like that."
"My dear," said Mr. Frobisher-Pym gently, "I don't think you're being
quite fair to Martin, or his wife's parents, either. From what Martin told
me, they were quite decent people, only not his class, of course, and
they came in a well-meaning way to find out what Martin's 'intentions'
were. You would want to do the same yourself, if it were a daughter of
ours. Old Burdock, naturally, thought they meant blackmail. He was
the kind of man who thinks everything can be paid for; and he
considered a son of his had a perfect right to seduce a young woman
who worked for a living. I don't say Martin was altogether in the right
——"
"Martin is a chip off the old block, I'm afraid," retorted the lady. "He
married the girl, anyway, and why should he do that, unless he had
to?"
"Well, they've never had any children, you know," said Mr. Frobisher-
Pym.
"That's as may be. I've no doubt the girl was in league with her
parents. And you know the Martin Burdocks have lived in Paris ever
since."
"That's true," admitted her husband. "It was an unfortunate affair
altogether. They've had some difficulty in tracing Martin's address,
too, but no doubt he'll be coming back shortly. He is engaged in
producing some film play, they tell me, so possibly he can't get away
in time for the funeral."
"If he had any natural feeling, he would not let a film play stand in his
way," said Mrs. Frobisher-Pym.
"My dear, there are such things as contracts, with very heavy
monetary penalties for breaking them. And I don't suppose Martin
could afford to lose a big sum of money. It's not likely that his father
will have left him anything."
"Martin is the younger son, then?" asked Wimsey, politely showing
more interest than he felt in the rather well-worn plot of this village
melodrama.
"No, he is the eldest of the lot. The house is entailed, of course, and
so is the estate, such as it is. But there's no money in the land. Old
Burdock made his fortune in rubber shares during the boom, and the
money will go as he leaves it—wherever that may be, for they haven't
found any will yet. He's probably left it all to Haviland."
"The younger son?"
"Yes. He's something in the City—a director of a company—
connected with silk stockings, I believe. Nobody has seen very much
of him. He came down as soon as he heard of his father's death. He's
staying with the Hancocks. The big house has been shut up since old
Burdock went to the States four years ago. I suppose Haviland
thought it wasn't worth while opening it up till they knew what Martin
was going to do about it. That's why the body is being taken to the
church."
"Much less trouble, certainly," said Wimsey.
"Oh, yes—though, mind you, I think Haviland ought to take a more
neighbourly view of it. Considering the position the Burdocks have
always held in the place, the people had a right to expect a proper
reception after the funeral. It's usual. But these business people think
less of tradition than we do down here. And, naturally, since the
Hancocks are putting Haviland up, he can't raise much objection to
the candles and the prayers and things."
"Perhaps not," said Mrs. Frobisher-Pym, "but it would have been
more suitable if Haviland had come to us, rather than to the
Hancocks, whom he doesn't even know."
"My dear, you forget the very unpleasant dispute I had with Haviland
Burdock about shooting over my land. After the correspondence that
passed between us, last time he was down here, I could scarcely
offer him hospitality. His father took a perfectly proper view of it, I will
say that for him, but Haviland was exceedingly discourteous to me,
and things were said which I could not possibly overlook. However,
we mustn't bore you, Lord Peter, with our local small-talk. If you've
finished your breakfast, what do you say to a walk round the place?
It's a pity it's raining so hard—and you don't see the garden at its best
this time of the year, of course—but I've got some cocker span'els
you might like to have a look at."
Lord Peter expressed eager anxiety to see the spaniels, and in a few
minutes' time found himself squelching down the gravel path which
led to the kennels.
"Nothing like a healthy country life," said Mr. Frobisher-Pym. "I always
think London is so depressing in the winter. Nothing to do with one's
self. All right to run up for a day or two and see a theatre now and
again, but how you people stick it week in and week out beats me. I
must speak to Plunkett about this archway," he added. "It's getting out
of trim."
He broke off a dangling branch of ivy as he spoke. The plant
shuddered revengefully, tipping a small shower of water down
Wimsey's neck.
The cocker spaniel and her family occupied a comfortable and airy
stall in the stable buildings. A youngish man in breeches and leggings
emerged to greet the visitors, and produced the little bundles of
puppy-hood for their inspection. Wimsey sat down on an upturned
bucket and examined them gravely one by one. The bitch, after
cautiously reviewing his boots and grumbling a little, decided that he
was trustworthy and slobbered genially over his knees.
"Let me see," said Mr. Frobisher-Pym, "how old are they?"